I’m still happy with libmrss as it allows me to completely focus on the representation and management of the data. Today I finally found the time to work on the application again and progressed nicely. My RSS RFC822 date parser was finished, I looked into check the unit testing framework and wrote unit tests for my parser. I added check to the build process, fixed the internationalisation of the reader and made use of the GtkTreeModelSort to allow sorting by Subject and now by time. The time sorting uses my RFC822 date class.

Yesterday I found lcov which means I can throw my own tools to generate these information away and instead improve the perl based tools where needed.
Looking at one of my blackbox unit-tests I recognize how fragile it is. Don’t ever run make check on a day switch as this violates the invariant of the check.

Hopefully GtkTreeModelFilter will be used by tomorrow. I hope to find at least some spare minutes to look into it.

good night, happy easter, I’m tired…
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